Publications
Publications (click on selected titles to be directed to publication or for additional information)
Articles:
“Galileo: The Unmaking of Heroes.” Communications from the International Brecht Society (December 2009).
“A Theatrical Zigzag: Doctor Dappertutto, Columbine’s Veil, and the Grotesque.” Slavic and East European Performance (November 2009).
“An Alternative Theatre: Russian Women Pioneers in Puppetry.” Puppetry International 16 (Fall 2004): 4-10.
“Vertep: An Eastern–European Puppet Nativity.” Puppetry International 11 (Spring 2002): 22-27.
Book Chapter:
“Spectres on the New York Stage: The (Pepper’s) Ghost Craze of 1863,” in Representations of Death in Nineteenth–Century U.S. Writing and Culture. Lucy Frank, ed. Ashgate Press, 2007, 189-204.
Reviews:
Book review of Michael Mark Chemers, Ghost Light: An Introductory Handbook for Dramaturgy (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Theatre Topics 21:1 (March 2011).
Book Review of Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, The Moscow Yiddish Theater: Art on Stage in the Time of Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. Theatre Journal 62:3 (October 2010).
"Brecht as Science Theatre,” performance review of Brecht’s Life of Galileo at Underground Railway Theatre. Communications from the International Brecht Society (December 2009).
Digital archive review of Feodor Chaliapin: A Multimedia Album, by Mikhail Solomatin. 2 CD-roms. Moscow: Shaliapinskii Tsentr, 2007. Theatre Research International 33:2 (July 2008): 214-215.
“Bunraku in Boston,” performance review of the National Puppet Theatre of Japan’s 2007 Boston performance. Puppetry International 23 (Spring/Summer 2008).
“A Fresh Approach to Wayang Golek,” book review of Voices of the Puppet Masters: The Wayang Golek Theatre of Indonesia by Mimi Herbert. Puppetry International 12 (Fall 2002).
Audio Interview:
“Underground Railway Theater's Life of Galileo: An Interview with Debra Wise.” Electronic Communications from the International Brecht Society (October 2009).
Translations:
Translations of Aleksei Goncharenko's profiles of contemporary Russian puppeteers Ruslan Kudashov, Alexander Tretiakov, Maxim Udintsev, and Anna Viktorova. Puppetry International 25 (Spring 2009), print and web editions.
Translation of the play Petrushka Gets Sick by Nina Efimova. Puppetry International 16 (Fall 2004): 29-31.
Works in Progress:
Contributor of eighteen entries (“Mariia Babanova,” “Biomechanics,” “Factory of the Eccentric Actor,” “Erast Garin,” “Igor Ilinskii,” Olga Knipper-Chekhova,” “Alisa Koonen,” “Mariia Lilina,” “Vsevelod Meierkhold,” “Solomon Mikhoels,” “Moscow Art Theatre,” “Moscow State Yiddish Theatre,” “Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko,” “Zinaida Raikh,” “Konstantin Stanislavskii,” “Stanislavskii System,” “Leopold Sulerzhitskii,” “Aleksandr Tairov”) to The Cambridge World Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting, ed. Simon Williams (Cambridge University Press). Forthcoming 2012.
Book chapter on Nina Simonovich-Efimova for Essays on the Influence of the Female Artist in the Early 20th Century, ed. Paul Fryer (McFarland Press). Forthcoming 2012.
The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and Russian Modernist Directors: Meyerhold, Komisarjevsky, Tairov, Eisenstein. In progress.
Co-editor with John Bell and Claudia Orenstein of a collection of new scholarship on puppetry and performing objects. In progress.
“Mapping an Émigré Community: Boris Chaliapin’s Theatrical Portraiture.” Article in progress.
